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300,000-year-old genes are oldest ever recovered from open-air site

Bacteria already living on grapes can break down smoky chemicals that wreck flavor

Machine learning method counts nearly 12 million dead trees, many likely killed by rising seas

Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago

The items to be returned, which include Java Man, were collected during the colonial era

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

Nationalist narrative holds that Austronesian language and culture originated in China, not Taiwan

Political impasse to hobble research agencies—and perhaps enable layoffs

Science chats with an entomologist and an expert in animal ethics who are monitoring how researchers report on the ethical treatment of insects

First-of-its-kind study captures how AI models’ behavior evolved through the campaign season

Farmers and supporters—including RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz—urge government to spare birds that survived H5N1 outbreak

Two recent studies shine light on the earliest known artistic usages of blue pigment

Electrical discharge from microscopic bubbles offers a new explanation for fleeting flames of folklore

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

Prosecutors alleged officials and researchers defrauded government during the early months of the pandemic

Harvard physician-scientist Anthony Letai is poised to head world’s largest cancer research agency

Termites enlist microbes to defend their crops from undesirable fungi

For 26 years, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has re-created the quark-gluon plasma that filled the infant universe

A “crisis” that rocked the island of Santorini may reveal a shared magma system between two volcanoes with explosive histories

Small study suggests uniQure drug could be first successful treatment for devastating brain disorder